Backwaters

Coming home, and Holy Places

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January 14th 2012
Namaskaram!! Re-visiting Kerala was, for lack of better descriptors (can someone please forward me some new adjectives other than amazing and incredible? I use these words far too often when I blog!), amazing and comforting. As I mentioned in the last posting, Kerala is really home-y to me and it was nice going back to a couple places that I had been before and sharing them with Mom. We we ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more